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Professor Mahendra Patel and The Association for Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) are calling on pharmacy technicians working in independent community pharmacies in Banbury, Oxford City, Reading, Slough, High Wycombe and Aylesbury to help conduct a study aimed at identifying new ways of improving health of Bangladeshi and Pakistani people living in the UK.
These ethnic minority groups have five times the rates of diabetes than the rest of the population and suffer poorer health by a number of other measures, including cardiovascular disease and mental health. Genes & Health, one of the world’s largest community-based genetics studies, will lend its expertise in understanding the role genes play in health and disease to the study.
Pharmacy technicians will help recruit eligible participants on site and within their communities. Participants will be required to give consent, complete a one-page questionnaire, provide a saliva sample and agree to be contacted with details about further potential stage 2 studies if applicable to them. This should take around 10 minutes to complete.
Pharmacy involvement will require participating pharmacies to attend training, displays posters, post samples to laboratories, and provide other materials necessary for the study. Renumeration for those taking part includes:
- Sites will receive £22 for each participant that they recruit*
- 5 hours of training (hourly rate)
- Flat fee of £100 to support time taken for community outreach planning
- Flat fee of £50 to cover any local travel expenses for community outreach clinics/events.
To find out more or express an interest in this study, please contact: mahendra.patel@phc.ox.ac.uk and joanne.carter@nihr.ac.uk.
*Please note, sites will need to sign a contract with the Thames Valley and South Midlands CRN for payment purposes.
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